Program on a tty

[Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone know of a way to run a curses program so the output is displayed
on a serial terminal,  but one does not have to login on that terminal.  I
have acquired a monochrome NTSC projector (big thing, goes in the cieling) that
I drive from a 286 with a CGA card (obviosly text only) that I have hooked
as a terminal to the Linux host.  But I want to be able to shove the 80286
in the cieling as well and be able to start a program (example top) that
puts it's output to that serial port where the 286 is running a terminal
emulator.  Then the projector shoots the terminal screen against the wall.

I've tried "nohup top 2>&1 > /dev/cua? &" and like derivations but everything
stops with "Terminal Output".